The Prophesied

Chapter 3 - Thistlepaw

Thistlepaw and Tawnypaw were running back into camp with their jaws filled with prey, they ran over to the fresh-kill pile and dropped their prey into it, it had been a few days since they'd saved that kit from the river, what was her name? Birdkit?

When their mentors told the deputy and leader they weren't mad about it at all, although Thistlepaw and Tawnypaw had to take care of the elders for a bit, and tonight was the Gathering, and they were going, he couldn't wait, he was so excited.

Thistlepaw picked up a fairly large rabbit from the pile and trotted over to the log stump by the apprentices den to eat it, Tawnypaw was already sitting there, chatting with Sandpaw, another tomcat, Thistlepaw dropped the rabbit next to Tawnypaw and said, "Hey Tawnypaw wanna share this rabbit with me?" Tawnypaw looked over and nodded, Sandpaw meowed something then trotted towards the fresh-kill pile.

Tawnypaw and Thistlepaw crouched over the rabbit to eat it, then when they were done they started to groom each other. As the sun started to set over the trees Sheepstar climbed onto the High Rock, "All cats old enough to catch their own prey please gather beneath the High Rock for a Clan meeting," As the cats all gathered, Sheepstar called the cats who were going to the Gathering to wait by the entrance of camp, while everyone else to get some rest.

Tawnypaw and Thistlepaw waited at the entrance for Sheepstar to join them with a few other cats, then when Sheepstar finally joined them they all started to go through the gorse tunnel and then they were all running through the forest towards Five Oaks.

They waited at the top of the side of Five Oaks then when Sheepstar flicked her tail, everyone swarmed down into Five Oaks, HurricaneClan and DarkClan where already gathered, and now they were waiting on FawnClan to arrive, Thistlepaw searched the clearing and then he spotted Birdkit, she must be an apprentice by now if she was here, he walked over with Tawnypaw, and meowed a greeting to her, Birdkit was chatting with another apprentice, who was white with a dark brown face and legs, with lighter brown stripes, similar to Birdkit's pattern, Birdkit looked slightly different, with an orange flower sitting just below her ear, "Hello, Birdkit, remember me?" Thistlepaw meowed, Birdkit looked up at him, "Oh, I do remember you. And it's Birdpaw now," she said, "I'm Frostedpaw from DarkClan." The other apprentice meowed with a smile, "I'm Thistlepaw and this is Tawnypaw, we're from LarkClan." Thistlepaw said, flicking his tail between him and Tawnypaw. Tawnypaw opened her mouth to say something but stopped as FawnClan arrived and started rushing down into the hollow where the other three Clans were already gathered, Thistlepaw turned around to see FawnClan, then he noticed a young apprentice almost looking as if they had become and apprentice too early, their fur was jet black, and it looked like they had white socks on, and their tail was thin slowly getting fluffier, and their tail was slowly fading from black to white, and they had light sage green eyes, with a white splotch on one eye.

As they made it to the bottom of the slope they tripped on a rock, and rolled the rest of the way down falling on their face at the bottom, they pulled themselves up and shook themself, and they then looked around, and pushed themselves close to a blonde and white cat with hot pink eyes, they nudged the young apprentice, and meowed something to them and then pointed to other groups of apprentices with her tail, then walked towards another FawnClan group of warriors, the black apprentice looked nervously around again, and caught Thistlepaw's eye, he smiled and gestured his tail towards where he was sitting, the black furred apprentice, determinedly walked over, trying to hide that they were nervous.

When they were over they stuttered, "I–I'm Nightpaw, f–from FawnCl–clan." "Hi Nightpaw! I'm Frostedpaw, and this is Birdpaw, Tawnypaw and Thistlepaw!" Frostedpaw said, flicking her tail at each apprentice as she said their names, "It's nice to meet you Nightpaw," Tawnypaw purred welcomingly, "How old are you anyway? You seem to young to be an apprentice," Thistlepaw asked, narrowing his eyes curiously, "I'm f–five moons, almost six," Nightpaw mumbled nervously, "Thistlepaw leave her alone, your making her nervous," Birdpaw growled, as Thistlepaw opened his mouth again, Nightpaw walked over to sit down next to Birdpaw and Frostedpaw.